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Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Representatives Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) and John Rose (R-TN) led 22 of their colleagues in a bipartisan letter requesting the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to require the Chinese company Shein, the world’s largest fast-fashion company, to certify that their products do not utilize Uyghur forced labor. It has been reported that Shein is preparing… Read more »

Washington, DC – U.S. Representatives Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) and Jen Kiggans (R-VA) and Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Rick Scott (R-FL) introduced a bipartisan, bicameral resolution that would designate April as “Parkinson’s Awareness Month.” Wexton announced on World Parkinson’s Day earlier this month that she has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s… Read more »

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) issued the following statement on the Ghaisar family’s settlement with the Department of Justice in the civil lawsuit claiming wrongful death of their son, Bijan Ghaisar, at the hands of the U.S. Park Police in 2017: “The Ghaisar family has faced years of unjust obstacles and stonewalling in their pursuit of answers in this case.… Read more »

Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Representatives Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) and María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) introduced bipartisan legislation to reform statutes of limitations (SOL) laws for child sexual abuse crimes. Only a small handful of states have fully eliminated statutes of limitations for criminal and civil child sexual abuse, exploitation, and trafficking cases as well as allowed for… Read more »

Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton shared a new report detailing the devastating impacts of House Republicans’ reckless plan to gut critical support for hardworking families in Virginia’s 10th District. “The extreme budget cuts being championed by House Republicans would be devastating to Virginians’ health, safety, and education here in the 10th District and all… Read more »

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA), along with more than 70 other members of Congress, sent a letter to the U.S. State Department urging Secretary of State Antony Blinken to designate U.S. Legal Permanent Resident and Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza as “unlawfully and wrongfully detained” under the Levinson Act (22 U.S.C. 1741 et seq.). The legislators also… Read more »

Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) announced projects from across Virginia’s 10th Congressional District that she has submitted to the House Appropriations Committee’s FY 2024 Community Project Funding program. The Committee will evaluate the projects for inclusion in the annual appropriations bills later this year. “As a member of the Appropriations… Read more »

Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) announced that she will be joining two New Democrat Coalition (NDC) Policy Task Forces: the Workforce Development Task Force and the National Security Task Force. “In Congress and during my time in the Virginia state Senate, I have a history of success working across the aisle to get results for my district,” said… Read more »

Leesburg, VA – Today, on World Parkinson’s Disease Day, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA-10) shared that she has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. She released a video, which can be found here. The transcript is below. “If there’s one thing that Democrats and Republicans can agree on, it’s that Parkinson’s Disease sucks. Today, on World Parkinson’s Day, I’m here to tell… Read more »

Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) voted no on H.R. 5, extreme legislation that promotes federal censorship of elementary and secondary education and threatens to strip critical funding from our public schools. The legislation, which passed the House with exclusively Republican support, would impose an extreme agenda on public schools that aims to restrict… Read more »